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My concern isn't that the economics of the bailout make no sense - obviously, they don't - but that Greece is being used as a testbed for a return to 19th century capitalist values across Europe.
Not so popularly known as 'reform.'
So yes - I think it's likely we'll see similar measures in other countries, using whatever melodramatic excuses can be waved in front of the financial press.
This is basically a class-led land-grab similar to the Enclosures in the UK and the Clearances in Scotland, but making a claim on the productive economy instead of physical territory.
bingo. the consumer economy is tapped out, and there's nothing to take its place.
planet couldn't take it this way for long anyway.
i heard an italian economist say today that all greece's profitable industries are registered and pay taxes in the netherlands, wtf?
nothing else but yoghurt and tourism, according to him... 'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty
Not.
you do it by having a populist story
The 1% stole everything. We are the 99%.
asdf:
and a lot of political power
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